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Alcohol-based fuels are, generally speaking, worse than gasoline or even diesel when you do a full life-cycle analysis. They are not carbon neutral. They coul
by lukeschlather 7y ago
Alcohol-based fuels are, generally speaking, worse than gasoline or even diesel when you do a full life-cycle analysis. They are not carbon neutral.
They could be, plausibly, but that technology has not been commercially demonstrated yet.
- alkonaut 7y agoIf you produce ethanol from locally sourced biomass using renewable power, you’ll get as close as you can. The figure 60% CO2 emission reduction (compared to gasoline) is often floated. Completely carbon neutral is difficult for any product of course. E85 is 15-24% gasoline too, which is neither renewable or carbon neutral. I still don’t think its a very good idea (cars are thirsty, infrastructure expensive, worse than both biogas and EV’s for climate etc).